Feature:
I love the effects loop.

Quality:
Solidly built, very good quality

Value:
I bought this amp a number of years ago fro about $300. What a bargin.

Desirability:
The tweed look is awesome.

Sound:
This is a great sounding amp on either the clean or gain channel.

Ease of Use:
Simple to use and understand.

Support:
Never had to use support, it hasn't broke.

Overall:
Best amp I have owned. I plan to keep it a long time.

Feature:
Once again, this would so easily be a 10 but Peavey just dropped the ball. Fortunatly the biggest one is another easy workaround. The foot switch that they sell seperatly is a plastic piece of junk, but the Vox VF 52 footswitch is a little metal tank and it works with the classic 30 (and the classic 50) I will never understand why they hooked up the second switch to the reverb instead of the boost, but oh well. The other controlls are awsome, all of the features listed on the website are tone shaping machines.

Quality:
I got this used, it is three years old and the guy I bought it from gigged heavily with it the whole time. He sold it because it kept destroying tubes from the rattle. With that problem fixed every things still works perfectly.

Value:
Even with the other $50.00 spent on the tube tamer and the vox switch this is a great deal. Real, full tube sound for $650 brand new, good luck beating that.

Desirability:
I started looking for a tube amp because of the sterility of solid states. This does it very well, it is plenty loud for small gigs but it is not such a monster that I can't play it in my shop with out the neighbors or wife complaining.

Sound:
This amp would get a 10 on it's sound, but it requires an after market fix to get it there. The tubes rattle like crazy when you hit a low A note. Bad enough that it can ruin the tubes. I did an internet search and for $25.00 bought "Tom's tube tamer." Problem solved and now it sounds great. Very expressive, lots of head room on the clean channel. I love the cleans and the dirty channel does Zepplin, AC/DC even Mettalica's Enter Sandman with no help, add an RP 250 and the sky's the limit.

Ease of Use:
This is my first tube amp (kicking myself for screwing around with solid state for over a decade) and I can quickly dial in a wide range of sounds, every pot is very functional.

Support:
Have not had to call

Overall:
This amp could so easily be a 10. How many tube amps sound great, are affordable for a hobbyist, weigh under 40 pounds and can servive years of gigging? But the stupid little details that are so easy to fix or work around hold it back. Still a great value if you are willing to do the little bit of extra that Peavey wasn't willing to.

Feature:
This is more a blues, country and classic rock amp. If you want to use it for metal, use the clean channel and get a Boss Metal Pedal or something similiar. However, I used a tech 21 pedal with it and it sounded wonderful..

Sound:
This is a great little amp. It's not too powerful, but yet loud enough for most small gigs, and you can of course mic it if you need to. It's just enough. It is very responsive in my opinion. I had it stolen from me, but Peavey Tube amps rock. I've not got a Peavey 120 Watt amp that is the Twin Reverb type amp, and it sounds great, especially when on the clean channel and using a distortion pedal that is all analog. Try it on this amp and you'll love it too.. This way you don't have to crank it, but if you do, you'll love the creamy warm sustain and smooth sound. It's just great..

Feature:
There are not many features on the amp. Where is the stand-by switch??? Two channels and a boost switch, which is really no more than a 6db boost to the already harsh high frequency. Don't get me wrong, this is a great little amp. With a tube change ( I'm running an EH 12AX7 on V1, a Sovtek 12AX7LPS on V2, and the stock tube on V3. I haven't upgraded the EL84's) the top end smooths out and the bottom end has more umpf. With the pedals I use, the amp puts out nice sound and can even achieve a decent metal sound. (For all out metal buy the 5150)

Quality:
I've been inside the amp. It looks good and seems well built. A tube shield would be nice.

Value:
For the money, I don't think you can find a better, more well built and musical all tube amp. I think the amp would still be a good value at $650.00USD plus.

Desirability:
I have a tweed version and this is one good looking amp. With chrome shining, its ashame the control panel doesn't wrap around the front. I had to go out and buy tweed covered cables to match.

Sound:
Overall, the sound is quite good in the Peavey Classic 30. The lows are little muddy and the highs are a little harsh, but with some tweaking the shortcomings can be brought to a point of listening enjoyment. The harsh highs actually are a complement to the Telecaster I play. The muddy lows are easily adjusted with the eq controls. I use a boss overdrive and a metal zone pedal for effects. The distotion on the lead channel is a little lacking, the pre and post gains need to be up above 6 ro 7 for a good sound, and with out a master volume, the tubes cannot be pre-saturated for break-up at low volumes.

Ease of Use:
Come on, turn the dials and go. Adjust on the fly until you find your sound.

Support:
I have not dealt with customer support other than getting a schematic so I can instal a stand-by switch.

Overall:
This is a very good product. I intend to make a couple of modifications to the amp to better suit my tastes. Just a tweak here and there, stand-by switch, master volume, speaker change. Even with a $150 or $200 investment this will be a value. (Especially if you have exactly what you want when you are done.)